Apartheid and the Archbishop: The Life and Times of Geoffrey Clayton, Archbishop of Cape Town

Geoffrey Clayton (1884-1957), the subject of the biography, Apartheid and the Archbishop, was a spiritual man of great intellectual powers. As a boy he had been awarded a scholarship to Rugby School, and from there he later won two university exhibitions.After a distinguished undergraduate carcer at Cambridge, and ordination as anAnglican clergyman, he was, by age 25, Dean, and Fellow, of Peterhouse. Claytonserved with distinction in Allenby's campaigns during the First World War; and, onreturn, exchanged the academic life for parish duties. After six years as a priest at StMary's the loss, Cambridge, he became, successively, Vicar of Chesterfield, Bishop ofJohannesburg, and Archbishop of Cape Town.